KR Reykjavík recorded a 0-2 win in the Icelandic Cup on Sunday and have one more league game, against bottom club Thor on Thursday, before facing Celtic on Champions League duty a week today.
Celtic have a game this evening against LSK Linz before facing a famous name from our past, Dukla Prague, on Friday. While the world will be coming through a World Cup climb down Celtic will be facing a committed team in the mid-Atlantic. There is no room for complacency.
Next week’s qualifier has all the potential to cause a fright. Ronny Deila will by now know all about Gordon Strachan’s competitive start at Celtic, which cast a shadow he never completely shook off, so it is absolutely critical the manager gets us playing the way he wants us tonight.
Ross McCormack’s route from Murray Park reject at 19 eight years ago to a player Fulham have just bid £11m for is worthy of consideration. It’s easy for us to point to how Rangers ruined young talented footballers but the stark truth is that for well over a decade Celtic had vastly better youth talent that Rangers but failed to graduate anything like as many as we should have.
McCormack had to go to Motherwell, a club well experienced at nurturing talent, to build his career, but he would have fared no better at Celtic. Having no space for youth is one of the many unhealthy consequences of having two massive clubs engaged in a football arms race. Our game was destined to destroy talent.
Fortunately, the man who loaned his name to Murray Park ensured that arms race would end in spectacular fashion, when he sold his club’s assets and liabilities to a liquidation specialist for £1. In a perverse sort of way, Scottish football should thank him.
Thank you to everyone who supported CQN’s efforts for Glasgow the Caring City and The Cookie Jar Foundation, especially the reader who paid an incredible £530 for the signed European Cup canvas. You are all a credit to our club.
Best wishes to Argentina tomorrow, I hope the overcome Netherlands for the memory of the first worldwide football hero they gave the game, Alfredo Di Stefano.
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67heaven
Heres hoping!
Too easy.
Yes
2 nil
Klose record breaker
2 – 0 Germany – Klose to the final now
Klose
2-0.
Klose from klose range…
This could end up a right doing for the Brazilians.
2-0. This could be a massacre. Brazil look poor.
Oh dear the home nation is going home tonight ;)
Klose from in close 2-0
Anyone who continues to play absolute no workers like Fred, deserve to be knocked right out.
Funny ryecatcher was a lad that some on here had doubts about, he came out with a Hun Like post a few nights ago, was taken up on it and as far as I’ve seen has not posted since. now Billyboy. Has it something to do with the time of year, with the glorious twelfth coming up they are not even comfortable wrapped in sheep’s clothing.
How bad is Brazil defence and even better how sick is bbc commentator
Not much that Neymar could have done tonight if his team mates are going to defend like this
Ta Toni
3-0
Ye haw
My god
Ha Ha
3 nil
Ho ho. It’s all over now
3-0 Germany – Kroos-ing now !
2-0
Brazil are as poor as we thought
Cannae believe that Germany were 9/5
3-0
BRAZIL HAVE CAVED IN !!!
3-0.
BT,
Couldn’t agree more about Marcello. Should be off really.
Game over
greenbingley,
From my view of the game, the young bhoys at the back started nervously, Findlay in particular, the defending at the corner for Linz first goal was a poor all round effort. Waters was steady and in my opinion O’Connell was the better of the three, all of the young bhoys got better as the game went on and Henderson and McGeoch looked very comfy in midfield. The opposition were no better than a Scottish second or third division team but it was a useful work out and always good to be scoring a few goals in pre-season.
AR
Brazil should have never been allowed to get this far.
I hope Germany take 10 off them.
Sitting with a German Colleague in the Metropolitan in Glasgow.
Fantastic.
This Germany side are like Ronny Deila’s Celtic.
HH
Brazilians shellshocked!
Oh my word. So much for 2-1 Brazil then.
Ohhhhhhhhhhh gawd almighty!!!! It’s 3!
Stop the game , ref.
This is an annihilation
BQN in meltdown.
FFS
4-0
4-0
FFS
4 nil